Tuesday, November 4, 2008

In his article "Deforestation in the Amazon", Rhett A Butler discusses the reasons for the Amazon deforestation. He argues that deforestation is highly correlated with the economic health of the country.

According to the writer deforestation in the Amazon is the result of several activities, the foremost of which include:

Clearing for cattle pasture.
Colonization and subsequent subsistence agriculture.
Infrastructure improvements.
Commercial agriculture.
Logging.

2 comments:

Woo said...

hi,

That's a good article.
Good job, man.
That article will be very helpful for our group.

Unknown said...

It is a good thing to know the causes of the deforestation, it will help to find solutions to avoid it.
It is been a long time now that we know about that and it is still a big issue in the environment protection.